The Great Disconnect Of Adulthood

Your family vs. broader society.

I think this is going to be a hard point to make, and I probably won’t make it very well, so let’s get right into it and see how big a mess it is.

Step 1: I believe most people make decisions relative to themselves, or at the very least relative to their family and friends. Would this be a good thing for my family, or for me, at this time? That’s pretty much how any job-hopping or relocation decision ultimately gets made, or even much harder discussions around putting parents in homes, etc. I think most people tend to think at the micro-level around their specific world.

Step 2: But the problem is, society is very complex and now we’re in this spot where everyone has a “platform” of sorts — if you want to put out some thoughts into the universe, no matter how batshit crazy or completely amazingly lucid those thoughts may be (and oftentimes two people will view those thoughts differently anyway) — you can. We have a lot of digital noise these days, and it’s not getting better.

Step 3: